The best part about ArtsBridge is that it brings the arts into the classroom while teaching important parts of our core. This week Mrs. Roundy brought in paper shape cut-outs and the students go to manipulate them to make new shapes. As groups, the students worked together to compose rectangles and squares using other shapes. This activity allowed the students to see the ways in which shapes are similar and unique and how they can be used to create new shapes as well.
After this fun shape activity Mrs. Roundy gave each student a sheet of card stock with different sized shapes printed onto them, as well as a booklet of different animals made up of shapes. The students got to pick which animal they wanted to create and cut out the correct shapes and assembled them onto a new piece of paper. I loved this idea because some students who wanted the guidance to create an animal had it, while others who wanted the freedom to create their own animals or scenes were able to do so as well. Their individual creativity was very evident in this project. See for yourself:
This project really helped these little ones understand the idea of composing and decomposing shapes while letting their creativity run wild and giving their fine motor skills some practice!
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